Friday, December 25, 2009

I hope you're all having a good day, and if you are alone or unhappy, I'm sending you some positive thoughts. It is only a day, even if it feels like the world revolves around the 25th of December, and things will all get back to normal very soon.

I'm not alone this year - my son and his significant other are here - but I expect to be next year, when they will go to the in-laws, and I've been wondering what it will be like to be alone on Christmas Day. I've been used to a houseful of guests all my married life and it will be strange to be alone, but I will not become someone else's waif and stray - I am determined about that. I'll still decorate a tree, I'll still have a special meal and, in fact, I'm quite excited about that because I will be able to do a vegetarian lunch for the first time - grumpy meat-eating men have prevented this up till now. Pulling crackers might be hard, unless the dog takes the other end in her teeth. I think I'll concentrate on feeding the birds, and take a long walk with the dog.

I will shun the usual ghastly Christmas TV, except Doctor Who, of course, and instead I will put on my extended Lord of the Rings trilogy, close the curtains, snuggle up by the fire with a hot chocolate and a warm dog. When it's really dark, I will go out and wave to the Moon, and blow a kiss to Orion the Hunter as he marches across the sky - I've got a bit of a crush on him - and I will go to bed and dream of Aragorn and Orion, and heroic times.

And then on Boxing Day I will rejoin normal society and go sale-shopping!

Freedom!

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Rosehip Or Prune used to be about life after losing a spouse. It came about from my own experience of being widowed at 47, in the same month that my only child left home to go to University. But that was ten years ago. Now it's about dating, and new relationships, getting older and making sense of the world. Welcome! Join in!